Nicasio Pajares

He was born on December 15, 1881 in Padrón. At the age of 14 to he emigrates to Montevideo where his uncle lives. He later returns to Padrón where he began studying accounting, to later go to Madrid where he finished his studies.

Later he decides to emigrate again, this time to Argentina, where he founded El Despertar Hispánico with a friend. It is in Buenos Aires where he devotes himself entirely to literature and journalism. In 1923 he published his first novel, El conquistador de los trópicos,which inaugurates the subgenre of “novels about dictators” later publishing El pensador de la selva, Atorrántida, Don Quijote y el tío Sam, Como pervirtieron a Palleiros…. He died on April 26, 1956 and was buried in Madrid’s La Almudena cemetery.